Skip to main content

Carers Week 2020 - Sharing stories across the Civil Service

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: A National Spotlight, East, South East & London
a hand holding anothers for comfort

Today I want to reflect back over the thoughts through the week, and give an insight into a couple of stories from Civil Service Colleagues who are happy to share their experiences around caring. Hopefully these little blogs have prompted …

National Caring Week 2020 - Making Caring Visible

Carers Week logo

Making Caring Visible, that’s the message for National Caring week 8 – 14 June this year, and the focus is to raise the visibility of carers and caring, why not take  a look on the carers week website https://www.carersweek.org/ Carers play …

Mental Health: it does not have to be a difficult conversation

a dog with the words mental health, it doesn't have to be a difficult conversation alongside

In October The Charity for Civil Servants launched a chatbot, ‘DogBot’ and their Wellbeing Hub. These tools brought together their most popular wellbeing self-help resources, enabling users to identify, choose and receive information direct to their inbox. Additional and refreshed …

Get yellow

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: A National Spotlight
3 chefs

There is still time to ‘Get Yellow’  ‘Get Yellow’ is The Charity for Civil Servants’ annual community fundraising week, which has been taking place this week, 29 October to 2 November!  This year the annual fundraising event coincided beautifully with …

Carers Week 2018

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: A National Spotlight

This week is National Carers Week. There are over 6 million carers in the UK, 1 in every 8 of the working population, providing essential support to a relative, partner or friend in need. Many people are carers without even knowing it and many are unaware of the help that’s available.